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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"income growth"”.
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Income growth and pricing of REITs
… Since the payout dividend depends on a REIT's income, positive income growth can increase shareholder wealth and therefore keep investors interested in its stock. So far, the primary channel for REITs to grow fast is by arbitraging the spread between their cost of capital and their …
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Mispricing income growth : exploring inefficiencies in commercial real estate pricing
… between real estate capitalization rates and income growth. The paper includes a cross-sectional analysis of approximately 25 markets in the United States. The paper analyzes apartment and office markets separately, for two different periods of time. Multi-variable regression techniques are …
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The child support "tax" : determining the effect of child support on the income growth of noncustodial parents
… the role of child support in determining income growth. Using an Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) model with state-level fixed effects applied to panel data from the National Study of Families and Households (NSFH), I find that having a legal agreement to pay child support has a significant …
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Economic interdependence of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan through oil and labor
… which in turn will affect investment and income growth in labor exporting countries. By employing oil price fluctuations in this study, a much clearer understanding of the effects of oil prices fluctuations on macroeconomic variables in an oil based economy will be shown and how this …
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Consumer behavior changes across income levels : meat market analysis
… to test how consumer behavior changes across income levels using time series data of the meat markets in Korea and the U.S. An income growth is one of the most significant and powerful trends in the modern economy and expected to continue its trend in the future. So finding relationships …
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An Exploration into the Economic Impact of the Wild and Scenic River Designation: A Quasi-Experimental Approach
… these designations have on regional economic growth. Exploiting a unique panel dataset of 3,034 counties from 1970-2009, I construct a treatment and control group by employing the propensity score nearest-neighbor method. I apply a two-way fixed effects model to estimate the average treatment …
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An Exploration into the Economic Impact of the Wild and Scenic River Designation: A Quasi-Experimental Approach
… these designations have on regional economic growth. Exploiting a unique panel dataset of 3,034 counties from 1970-2009, I construct a treatment and control group by employing the propensity score nearest-neighbor method. I apply a two-way fixed effects model to estimate the average treatment …
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Sources of Productivity Growth and Its Relation to the Distribution of Income in Industrialized Countries and Korea
Income growth and a more equitable distribution of income with the alleviation of poverty are the most important concern of the economists. So, the area of economic growth and income distribution has been drawing growing attention to many development economists and policy makers since the early …
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Inequality, Redistribution and Mobility of Agricultural Incomes in Scotland
… aspects of the distribution of agricultural incomes in Scotland. More specifically, the thesis will first investigate the impact of agricultural income support on inequality through the analysis of its redistributive effect. Decomposition of the redistributive effect allows to determine if …
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Three Essays on Economic Growth and Natural Resources
… between resource intensity and economic growth in the Appalachian region of the United States. The first chapter develops a homogenous sample of counties within the Appalachian region and uses that sample to investigate how coal resources impact long-run per capita income growth. The …
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Investigation of the relationship between population growth and income per capita
High population growth rates are typical in most of the developing countries. This thesis explores the impact of this phenomenon on income per capita. A distinction between short-term, medium-term, and long-term effects is made in this research work. The study starts with developing theoretical …
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Academia versus industry as a wellspring of new ideas in drug discovery : the case of oncology
… industries must continue to meet revenue and income growth expectations and will become increasingly dependent on novel drugs in their pipelines. In order for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries to meet the demands of both patients and shareholders, productivity in the research and …
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Federal highway spending and economic growth in Appalachia
… increases in socioeconomic status: per capita income growth, civilian employment growth, and non-farm employment growth.;The data indicates that federal highway spending in Appalachia has little to no effect on increasing socioeconomic status in the region. The most important factor indicating …
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Women’s Empowerment and Community-Driven Development: Evidence from the Solomon Islands
… (RDP). The RDP aims to foster employment and income growth by focusing on participatory development, demand-responsive provisions of government services, and the creation of a supportive economic environment for small-scale rural development. The RDP process mandates female involvement, which …
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Essays on aggregate and individual consumption fluctuations
… and individual consumption dynamics when the income process exhibits regime-switching features, and compares its performance with the conventional linear model. For this purpose, I consider an economy populated by a large number of consumers whose incomes are subject to both aggregate and …
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The potential of the agro-processing industry for industrialization in Zambia
… foods domestically and regionally, as well as income growth, urbanization, and regional integration. Developing the agro-processing sector will involve the building of dynamic industrial capabilities along with product certification and standards, packaging, logistics, and access to formal …
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The effects of human capital and private investment in technology on economic structure
… capital, private investment in technology and income growth. Even though disentangling how this relationship happens is crucial for policy screening, this still needs a better understanding. We shed light on this debate by analyzing economic structure in two investigations. The first …
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The determinants of foreign direct investment in U.S. real estate : an empirical analysis
… a model to test the importance of GDP, GDP growth, national investment level, exchange rate, and interest rate in determining levels of FDIRE in the U.S. from major developed countries. Results of the study suggest that economic growth of a country unexpectedly encourages domestic investment …
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El Serafy User costs and their implications for macroeconomic policy in Africa's mineral rich economies
… approach to the ‘proper’ definition of National Income, it recomputes Net Domestic Product in 11 mineral-based African economies and tests for their macroeconomic sustainability. The study finds a disturbingly poor level of sustainability in several of them; with aggregate expenditures in excess …
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Education and Socio-Economic Wellbeing in Racially Diverse Rural Counties: The Contribution of Historically Black Colleges and Universities
… Racially Diverse Rural Counties", and "Economic Growth in Racially Diverse Rural Counties: The Contribution of Historically Black Colleges and Universities." The first of the two papers provides a descriptive review of the racially diverse rural counties (RDRCs) which are located exclusively in …
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